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Police ‘15 minutes late’ to catch Salah Abdeslam

That’s all the time police claim they would have needed to arrest one of the main Paris attacks suspects still on the run, Salah Abdeslam.

“Policemen checked his ID but it wasn’t in the database then. We were simply unlucky,” Interior Minister Jan Jambon told the Belgian broadcaster VTM. “If he would have passed [the checkpoint] 15 minutes later, there would have been a match in the database.”

The interview, set to be broadcast Wednesday evening, goes into Belgium’s handling of the hours and days after terrorists struck in Paris on November 13 in attacks that killed 130 people.

Abdeslam is a key suspect at large in the investigation. His last confirmed sighting was hours after the attacks, when he crossed the Belgian-French border to flee the scene. French police were patrolling the border and stopped Abdeslam, but his ID didn’t show up in the database, the Belgian interior minister said.

The Paris terrorist attacks triggered a push for better and faster sharing of data between European intelligence agencies, which have failed to work smoothly across borders to tackle international networks of jihadis.

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This is a failure in the schengen and judiciary system too in the EU. Europe isn’t taking care of its current citizens from foreign or local criminals or terrorists. It’s embarrassing that Europe is becoming a USA. For a first world country it’s starting to behave as a second or third world.